descensory

English

Etymology

From New Latin descensorium. Compare Old French descensoire. See descend.

Noun

descensory (plural descensories)

A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “descensory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)